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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96109	The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1142; Thomason E1610_4; ESTC R210335	123,303	409

its coming SECT 11. MEditate upon the day of judgment Meditate on the day of judgement God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world Acts 17.31 Meditate 1. Upon the solemnity of this trial The trumpet shall sound to summon all the world before the Judge * Si talis sit horror venientis qualis erit judicantis Aug. 1 Thes 4.16 and Jesus Christ shall come in the glory of his Father with all his holy Angels Mat. 25.31 2. Meditate upon the universality of this trial We must all appeare before the judgement-seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5.10 Kings and Nobles all must come to the barre there 's no exemption I have read of a wicked King who on his death-bed fell a weeping his brother ask'd him why he wept to think saith he that I who have judged others am now going to be judg'd my self 3. Meditate of the impartiality of the tryal Christ will do justice He will judge the world in righteousnesse Acts 17.31 There are no bribes taken in this Court no relations take place here The Thebanes did picture their Judges blinde and without hands blind that they might not respect persons Reusner without hands that they might take no bribes Christs Scepter is a Scepter of righteousnesse Heb. 1.8 't is not nearnesse of blood availes nor will he be bribed with a teare 4. Meditate upon the exactnesse of the trial it will be very critical He will thoroughly purge his floor * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 3.12 not a grace or a sinne but Christs fan will discover it He will judge the heart as well as the fact 5. Meditate upon the issue and consequence of this trial There will be a discrimination made He will separate the good from the bad Mat. 25.32 The wheat and chaffe may both grow together but they shall not lie together Meditate often upon this Court of judicature from whence is no appeal Feathers swim upon the water but gold sinks into it light feathery Christians flote in vanity they minde not the day of judgement but serious spirits sink deep into the meditation of it Most men put farre away from them the evil day Amos 6.3 they report of the Italians that in a great thunder they use to ring their bells and shoot off their Cannons that the sound of their Bells and the roaring of their Cannons may drown the noise of the thunder so the devil delights men with the musick of the world that the noise of this should drown the noise of the day of judgment and make them forget the sound of the last trump Most men are guilty therefore they do not love to heare of the Assises When Paul preach'd of judgement Faelix trembled Acts 24.25 he had a bad conscience Josephus tells us of Faelix that he was a wicked man The woman that lived with him Drusilla by name he had entised away from her husband and when he heard of judgement he fell a trembling Oh I beseech you meditate upon this last and solemne day while others are thinking how they may get riches let us bethink our selves how we may abide the day of Christs coming The meditation of the day of judgement 1. Would make us to scanne all our actions Christ will come with his fanne and his sieve Will this action of mine bide the test at that great day 2. The meditation of the last day would make us labour to approve our hearts to God the great Judge and Umpire of the world 'T is no matter what men think of us but what is our Judges opinion of us to him we must stand or fall The meditation of the day of judgement would make us endeavour to be like Moses who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 faire to God as the Original hath it * Act 7.20 The Galaxia or milky way as the Astronomers call it is a bright circle in the heavens containing many starres but they are so small that they have no name nor are they taken cognizance of by the Astrologers Give me leave to apply it possibly others may take no notice of us we are so small as to have no name in the world yet if we are true stars and can approve our hearts to God we shall hold up our heads with boldnesse when we come to stand before our Judge 3. The meditation of the day of judgment would make us labour after an interest in Christ There 's no standing before Christ but by being in Christ if Christ be thine then all is well no matter what is charg'd if all be discharg'd Rom. 8 33 34. There 's no way in the world to stand in the day of judgement but by making a party make Christ thy friend and then thy Judge will be thy * 1 Joh. 2.1 Advocate 4. The meditation of the day of judgement would make Christians lesse censorious they would not repobrate others so fast who art thou that judgest another doest thou take Christs Scepter into thy hand darest thou sit in judgement upon thy brother perhaps when the critical day comes he may be found gold and thou chaffe 'T is true we may judge mens way but not their persons Rom. 14.10 but why doest thou judge thy brother we shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ 5. The meditation of the day of judgement would yeeld much comfort to a Christian and that in two cases 1. In case of weaknesse of grace a poor Christian when he sees his grace so defective is ready to be discouraged but at the day of judgement if Christ finde but a dramme of sincerity it shall be accepted if thine be true gold though it may be light Christ will put his merits into the scales and make it passe currant If thou hast no sinne of allowance Thou shalt have grains of allowance I may allude to that Amos 9.9 yet shall not the least graine fall to the earth He that hath but a graine of grace not the least grain shall fall to hell 2. In case of censures and slanders The Saints go here through strange reports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 6.8 There 's no walking in the world now a dayes let us tread never so warily without catching some spects of dirt John Baptists head in a charger is a common dish in this age 't is ordinary to bring in a Saint beheaded of his good name but at the day of judgement Christ will unload his people of all their calumnies and reproaches he will at that day wash his Spouse so white that she shall not only be guiltlesse but spotlesse her black spots of reproach shall be taken away Ephes 5.27 he will present his Church glorious sine macula ruga not having spot or wrinkle SECT 12. THe twelfth subject of Meditation Meditate of hell 1. Meditate on hell 1. Poena damni Meditate upon the paine of losse Mat. 25.10 and the door was shut To have Christs face vail'd